OK! Sorry I haven't been updating, but I've gone through a bit of a transformers fetish, I'll try and update more quickly from here on out.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own spider riders. Of the events in this fiction bare similarities and/or connections to those of reality, such are pure coincidence; this is a fictional story.
"What do you mean we're going to Paris??!" Hunter asked. "That's where what we're looking for is. Here! Look at these lighter shaded areas; they're streets in Paris! And look over at the darkened areas! Thos are tunnels!"
"So we're looking for a secret tunnel system in Paris…" Adam muttered. "…no!" He breathed. "You can't be serious!" Hunter bellowed. "I wish I wasn't!" Amber sighed. "What are you 3 talking about?" Corona asked. "The shrine—or at least the next clue to the shrine—is located… in the… French Catacombs…" Amber sweat-dropped. "What are the French Catacombs?" Sparkle asked innocently. "A living nightmare hidden beneath the city of lights." Amber said. Sparkle gulped.
"You know, being specific wouldn't hurt." Lumen stated. "In the 16th century plagues racked the outer world, and deaths were high. The French didn't have enough space for the bodies… so they buried them beneath their capitol city in a hideous tunnel system; to this day the tunnels are filled with the bones of forgotten souls." Adam breathed. "You 2 sure seem to know allot; all I knew was that it was a tunnel system in France that some people had gotten lost in before." Hunter said.
"There's a club at our school for this sort of thing." Amber said trying to pull her self out of her despair. She couldn't let her self be ruled by the fact that numerous tunnels had collapsed and that most of the exits and entrances had been blocked off since the map was written :(… Amber sweat-dropped.
"Well, its walk on some corpses, or let a dragon destroy the earth; if it gets bad enough we'll ram our way out with a few battle spiders!" Hunter said enthusiastically. "You've never seen videos of the catacombs…" Amber said with a gloomy sweat-drop. "Um… guys…?" Adam asked. The group turned towards him. "This is an international flight… how are we supposed to get the riders out of the country without passports…?" Amber sat down and began banging her head on the café table. "I think I might be able to help." Hunter said. Amber looked up enthusiastically; maybe there still was hope! "Really?! How?!"
"Simple; my dad calls in a few favors from the good old US military!" Amber got a stomach ache.
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Itex's CEO—Robert Itex—could only stare at the cloaked woman before her; she was filing her nails and blowing at them as if she were any other impatient woman; but she wasn't. This woman—Anaya—and her friend had just given him amazing supernatural powers, beyond that of many people's wildest dreams. "And remember," she had said "you get to keep your powers and a few secrets on where to get more if you use your resources to keep these 2 kids and their friends from reaching their destinations in a little international adventure they're having." The CEO was taken aback when he learned that he'd be unleashing his own private army on a couple of children. It seemed a little cruel. "Oh, and don't feel guilty; these children actually have powers of their own; watch out of the red haired boy and the black haired girl especially." If he was going to survive "the world's cleansing" he'd have to ignore his conscience and make some tough decisions. "Get the 'Snake Eye Division' ready."
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"Thank god that's over." Igneous muttered. Igneous didn't enjoy his 5 hour flight. If you're wondering how people with no record of existence or passports got out of the US; you have Adam to thank for that. You see…Adam is a bit of a hacker. Enough said. The group walked out of the air port and got on a bus. Thankfully it wasn't all that crowded. Even so; the Riders (excluding the earthen riders of course) were awestricken at their first car ride. "W-w-wait! I-i-s this another earthen flying machine?" Igneous asked nervously. Adam and Amber laughed as Hunter explained. Igneous still didn't like it all that much; but he preferred them over planes.
Once in the city the riders were awestricken at the beauty earthen architecture could achieve. "Welcome to the city of love," Amber announced. Corona couldn't help but look over at Hunter; perhaps they would get their chance here? The group looked for an inconspicuous spot to work from. They eventually settled for one of the countless cafes located in the vast city. Adam had one of those internet connect cards so wifi wasn't a problem. "Adam, I need you to surf the net and look for any possible entrances to the catacombs," Amber announced. "Already on it," Adam replied. "There's one about a 15 minute drive away from here."
Hunter leaned over and looked at the map. "If we start off at this Boulevard Arago (real place, real street, I DID RESEARCH FOR THIS!) it'll almost be a straight shot to the entrance" Hunter said noticing that the map search had their destination marked. "I put the little person where we are right now—err—well, in front of it. If we follow this route we should be there pretty quickly."
"Yeah but still…" Amber interjected, "I think it would be faster to go by taxi—this is a race against time after all." Even Igneous agreed; he may have hated cars and planes but he knew that the amount at stake was more important that his petty little phobias. The group stepped outside and looked around. The street was wide and was split into 2 for people going in different directions. They quickly called a van sized cab for their group and piled in. "Place Denfert Rochereau." Adam told the driver. "You American?" The driver asked in a French accent as he started the car. "Why yes," Amber said. "Do not worry, I know English. So what are a bunch of teenagers like you doing so far away from home when the world is afraid of another mega quake happening?"
"Uh…abroad studies!" Hunter said. Well; it was believable. "With a little girl like her?' He said gesturing towards Sparkle; who was staring out the back window. "Hey Hunter. What are those things in the air with the spinning things?"
"Those are helicopters," Amber said. "And…weird ones," she said. "What's a helicopter doing flying so low?" Hunter asked. "I dunno," Amber said. "Is there something planned?" Hunter asked the driver. "Nothing I heard about." He answered. The copters were getting closer. "OK, that's not normal," Amber said. They were closing in and card swerved out of their way. "Drive," Amber breathed. "drive, drive, drive drive!" Amber yelled. The driver pressed down on the petal and sped up. The copters got on both sides of the cab. A hatch opened on their bottoms and bikers came out. They were wearing jump suits and helmets with strange eye symbols on them. "Wa-wa who are they?" the driver bellowed. "we don't know!!" Adam bellowed. One of them pulled something off of their bike. It was long, black, and had a handle. "Keep your heads down!" Hunter bellowed. They all obeyed as several shots rang through the car and the glass shattered. Amber and Sparkle screamed. The driver sped up again. "Terrorists! Terrorists!" The driver bellowed. "Assumptions later, petal to the metal now!" Adam bellowed. The driver obeyed.
Outside of the car stunned by-standards swerved out of their way honking and yelling. People on the sidewalks, screamed, yelled, took photos, and pointed. The driver took a hard left. The bikers followed, but they got some distance between them. "W-w-wait! We have to go the other way!" Magma bellowed. "Screw your destination! I'm trying to make sure we get out of this alive!"
"Guys, he's right, we have to lose these guys before we try anything else!" Amber said. "I can take them out!" Shadow yelled from within Hunter's manacle. "Wait! You're going to let Shadow loose in an earthen city street???" Amber bellowed. "Whatever you are talking about, if it'll get those bikers to stop chasing us then do it!"
Amber sighed. "OK, do it."
"SHADOW SPIDER OUT!"
A beam of light exited the car, grew, and shadow was following them via leaping from building to building. "Woo yeah! Ever since I saw one of these earthen buildings I wanted to leap over them!"
"Is that a—giant spider?" the cab driver thought. "Flame, back him up!" Igneous bellowed as Flame took the line of buildings on the other side of the street. The bikers closed in again. The group put their heads down as they took another turn back towards where they were going. "we're on the Rue Jean Dolent!" the driver bellowed. This was a small street; the driver pressed to the side and tried to box one biker in against the large wall they were driving by, children in the playground beyond the other wall this street had yelled and pointed at what they felt seemed like a scene from an action movie. Shadow leapt across the apartment complex.
In the floors beneath families were eating and as Shadow leapt over he caused a small tremor in their home knocking a few cups over.
He webbed the wheels of the biker they hadn't boxed in and knocked him over. Back inside the taxi the biker broke through the middle side window and tried to shoot the passengers at point blank. Amber quickly grabbed at the gun and started a tug of war as the others yelled suggestions and cheers. Lumen took the opurtunity given to him by his position to kick the biker; he just distracted him for a moment because of the biker's helmet. Flame then webbed his bike and pulled it away. The biker was now dangling on the window for dear life. Amber finally managed to pull the gun away, so she delivered one swift kick to his head and knocked him out. He rolled down the street near unconscious, hurt, but not dead. He groggily reached to his helmet and pressed a button. "Targets lost…headed towards… the Place Denfert-Rochereau…" he fell into unconsciousness.
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The group was celebrating their victory as Hunter and Igneous brought their spiders back into their manacles. "OK, that was awesome!" Adam said typing away at his lap top. Amber didn't know why he was but she paid no notice. Right now she was just happy to have made it out of her first real life car chase unscathed. The taxi turned one more time then drove straight asking questions about who those people were and what they wanted. But the youths were just as dumbfounded as he was. They eventually cam to an open circular plaza with a lion statue in the middle.
"You kids take care," the driver said with a deep breath. Amber apologized for the trouble as they walked out. Onlookers pointed curiously at the damaged cab as he drove off. The group looked around at the sidewalk they were on. "OK, Adam. How do we get in?" Lumen asked. Adam ushered them into a wide open hall of records in the building behind them. There's a public entrance to the catacombs in here." They went down a few more hall ways until they were met with a spiral stair case that led down into a deep dark tunnel. Amber pulled out a crank flash light. "OK guys, brace yourselves." She took a gulp and they walked down into the deep tunnel.
